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Friday, June 14, 2024
June 2024 Music Reviews
2024 Late Spring/Early Summer Music Reviews
Hello All
Hard to believe we've already made it to the half way point of 2024 it seems like we just turned the page in to this year and here we are in June already, anyways there is always so much great music coming out and it's so hard to hear it all or even write about it all but here are a few reviews of recent music i've been hearing and think you should give a listen to. Also Talking Hendrix is still on friday nights from 9-midnight eastern standard time on www.bostonfreeradio.com and if you haven't heard our other show we're now doing on wednesday afternoons starting at 2 p.m. please go and check it out it's called Let The Good Times Roll pretty much the same type of format as our Talking Hendrix show it's a free form show of various genres and each week on this show you never know what we're going to play we've gone from the Texas blues to the history of boy bands from the 60s to the present so be sure to come and check it out on wednesday afternoons as you never know what is in store for the shows.
REVIEWS.....
Jaclyn Bradley's New Single "hometown" Really Hits Home"
by
Ed Wrobleski
Holyoke, Massachusetts June 13, 2024
Jaclyn Bradley's new single Hometown really gives you a feel of home and has a great message that this writer hears remember where you came from, and never forget the people you meet as you go through life. This tune was a very well penned one and has various female country pop artists influences within this song I can hear the influences of Hillary Scott of Lady A, Faith Hill, Taylor Swift, I can see this song moving up the top 40 country pop charts or even the independent music charts this will be on many of folks radar this summer for sure. The b-side of this single "Burn For You" a country rocker that keeps your toe tapping on this one and again has many current country pop influences within this tapper in this one the influeces I hear are Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift, Lady A, The Band Perry even this is going to be a double sided hit single this writer thinks, If interested and getting this you can stream and download where ever you get your music from, and it will be out officially on July 7th be sure to get it then, and you won't be disappointed.
Anthony Bonnette's "Do You One Better" Could Be A Wedding Song For This Decade....
by
Edward Wrobleski
Holyoke., Massachusetts June 3, 2024
Anthony Bonnett has most definitely got a hit single on his hands with "Do You One Better" and also this could be the song that couples are going to want to make theirs as a song played to dance to as their songo, it certainly has that romantic feel to the track that makes you want to dance pretty much anywhere you with your sweetheart, "Do You One Bettter" also has that 90s country sound that George Strait would even have even done justice to infact Anthony's vocals sound very close to Strait's voice it's like he picked up where George left off. I see this being a song people are going to call their song and have played to their first dance at their wedding every decade has one of those songs the 2010s had "Need You NOw" by Lady A..well the 2020s is going to have Anthony Bonnett's "Do You ONe Better". Check out this track where ever you stream your music or get your downloads from. this song certainly should be climbing up the country top 40 charts, and be those hopeless romatic lovers song to make memories with.
Kent Blazy's Newest Release "my Life So Far" Leaves Us Wanting More...
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Edward Wrobleski
Holyoke, Massachusetts June 3, 2024
Another masterpiece from singer/songwriter Kent Blazy, it seems as though everytime he puts a new album out he manages to surpass the previous one, and we do have a musical hero track in this set of material as always this time Kent is paying tribute to the sixties british invasion blues rock band the Yardbirds whom gave us three legendary guitar players of course and that would be Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. This album has a rockin' country feel for the most part and you can hear the different influential people that had to have been the inspiration for these songs, some of the inspirations this writer hears in the material included on this package of delectable goodies of songs are Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, the Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, Charlie Daniels, and of course Tom Petty who influenced so many great artists as well, but to close out this eleven track collection is
a demo version of a track that Kent co-wrote with legendary cowboy Garth Brooks, Kent and Garth have co-written many of Brooks's hits throughout his career and they've scored big on the country music charts they started collaborations of writing going all the way back to Garth's first album with monster hit "if Tomorrow Never Comes", the track on this package is entitled "For A Minute There" the song would later appear on Garth's 2005 release "The Lost Sessions" which had some really good tunes that were left over from various recording sessions for his albums and some newley penned tracks as well. As always Kent knows how to deliver these finely penned tunes and each and every song has a great story within them, which is what we should hear in all genres of music is a good story and a good message. Kent always delivers a great album's worth of material and never disappoints his fans infact this writer believes what Kent does is always leaves them wanting more and that's just what he has done here keep them coming.
Allie Coleen's "Grass On The Grave" Hits Home For Those Dealing With Those Relationships We Sometimes Don't WantTo Leave....
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Edward Wrobleski
Holyoke, Massachusetts June 6, 2024
Allie Coleen's newest relelease "Grass On The Grave" really drives it home on the relationship scene, it gets the point across to the listener that you think you're in that perfect love relationship, but the other person involved might be looking to see if that grass is greener on the otherside and sometimes we just have to move on, even though you might be in love with that other person they might just not feel the same as you do. This is what is so great about the country music fenre and that is they always have either great stories or a message that gets across to all the listeners vs. the other genres not to say the other genres don't have message songs or stories but the vast majority just are typically talking about driving or living fast and not paying attention to what's going on around you. Allie Coleen's "Grass On The Grave" has that great message saying moving on in a former relationship is not a bad thing sometimes you just got to and something better will come along. I most definitely see a big and bright future for Allie's career she's definitely going places in the country music or even pop music scene for sure.
SISTER ROSETTA THARPE LIVE IN FRANCE:
THE 1966 CONCERT IN LIMOGES
Is A Religious Experience Like You've Never Had Before
by
Edward Wrobleski
April 10, 2024 Western Massachusetts This unreleased until now lost gem of the late Sister Rosetta Tharpe will be released April 20th, this coming record store day as a limited edition 2-LP set and then will be released on a deluxe cd packaging on April 26th along with a digital stream on the same day as well. This 21 song set was recorded on November 11, 1966 at the Grand Theater in Limoges, France most likely in the hopes that eventually her record label at that time would do possibly one of two things as most artists did back in those days which was either release the full live performance on vinyl for her loyal listening fans whom may have seen that particular performance or in hopes to hear a glimpse of what they couldn't go and hear or see in person or they do this more now adays then back then but release a live compilation album of various performances from various shows/venues, but then live concert albums in the sixties were not as popular as they would become in later years and the recording technology at that time was not perfect but that is to what this writer thinks makes a live album more unique. This performance of Sister Rosetta Tharpe has been shelfed and or should I say lost/locked away in in a music vault for all of these years and now we get this delightful solo performance of the legend with just herself and her electric guitar, in other words unplugged, but in those days unplugged wasn't even thought of as a term yet and again this is what makes this album speciall and unique for the listener. As we know Sister Rosetta Tharpe paved the way for so many female guitar and vocalists including female guitar legend Bonnie Raitt, but she also had inspired many male vocalists and guitarists in those days including Little Richard, Keith Richards, Chuck Berry, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Rev. Billy F. Gibbons of bluesrock band ZZ Top & sixties psychedelic band The Moving Sidewalks, there are as I said 21 moving and inspirational songs in this set, a few that really stand out to me is "Up Above My Head Is Music In The Air" this performance stands out and even though it's only her on vocals you can visualize while listening where a gospel choir would be singing with her in certain segments, we would however hear not quite two years late a an almost everyone on your feet a church service version by the king of rock and roll Elvis Presley in his '68 Comeback Special which would bring the house down with the audience cheering on the special performance by the king, Tharpe was very influential on the King by the Godmother of Rock and Roll herself to the King and his phenomenal gospel recordings, interesting thought and it's just a thought do you think the king ever met the Godmother of Rock and Roll in person? we will never know for sure. Another great track is "That's All/Denomination Blues" and Also "Nobody's Faul But Mine" great bluesy numbers that have such grit in her vocals as this writers sees and hears in this set is first this should have not stayed locked away in a vault for so long and second this is a must have for all of Sister Rosetta Tharpe fans and collectors, and if you're just discovering her music this is also a great introductory set to get. I've listed the tracks below as they will apear on the 2-LP vinyl set but the deluxe cd set has the same order of tracks this is most definitely a must for all collectors to own it, also includes extensive liner notes and never before seen photos as well you'll get some real insight on Sister Rosetta Tharpe if you're not familiar with her music or her story.
Track Listing:
LP 1 / SIDE A
1. This Train (4:25) – R. Tharpe
2. When My Life Work Is Ended (3:45) – W.W. Harris, A.J. Bell
3. Didn't It Rain (1:49) – Trad. - arr. R. Tharpe
4. Mother’s Prayer (5:26) – J.W. Van de Venter
SIDE B
1. Up Above My Head, I Hear Music in the Air (Trad. - arr. R. Tharpe) (2:20)
2. Moonshine (2:52) - R. Tharpe
3. Sit Down (2:23) – N. Sherman - J. Keller
4. Down by the Riverside (3:33) – Trad.
5. When The Saints Go Marching In (2:23) – Trad. - arr. R. Tharpe
6. Joshua Fought The Battle of Jericho (2:18) – Trad. - arr. R. Tharpe
LP 2 / SIDE C
1. Jesus Met the Woman at the Well (4:29) – J.W. Alexander, K. Morris
2. Two Little Fishes, Five Loaves of Bread (2:41) – B. Hanighen
3. Traveling Shoes (3:19) – Traditional
4. Beams of Heaven (2:55) – C.A. Tindley
5. That's All / Denomination Blues (2:58) – R. Tharpe, W. Phillips
6. Going Home (2:40)
SIDE D
1. Go Ahead (3:12) – C. Jeter
2. Bring Back Those Happy Days (3:11) – R. Tharpe
3. Give me That Old Time Religion (2:04) – Traditional
4. If Anybody Above Me (1:48) – M. Kenney
5. Nobody's Fault But Mine (4:26) – Traditional
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Monday, July 13, 2020
New Niall Horan's Album "Heartbreak Weather" Should've Been Really Called "Heartbreak Shitter"
This sophomore attempt of Horan's new material should have been used as toilet paper to wipe your ass with as all the songs are depressing as all hell, by the time you get to the end of this collection of material you'll be wanting to play russian roulette with every chamber in the gun having a bullet in it or if you don't want to tempt your fate that way make an X somewhere so no repairs can be made to you when your body arrives to the hospital emergency room.
It's nice for an artist to want to pay homage to their inspirations of musical influences, but on the other side of that coin you don't need to rip off literal songs by those influential artists you have respect for take the song "Nice To Meet You" it's a clear rip off musically of the Rolling Stones "Sympathy FOr The Devil" with a little of U2's "mysterious Ways" blended in there i'm really in hopes that Mick Jagger & Keith RIchards along with Bono sue the pants off of Horan, in all honesty the rest of this horrible collection of music on this LP was written so that he could pine over the loss of his former girlfriend Haley Steinfeld who clearly is over Horan as she put out a recent collection of music bashing him including "Man Up" which Horan is clearly still not a man more like a little boy who probably couldn't get it up for Steinfeld in the bedroom she has way better taste in men and clearly realized Horan was a temporary lapse of insanity in her ten months of dating this loser. I mean the song "Black and White" clearly written for Steinfeld is the lamest song on the album and he thinks according to most of the interviews found on youtube is a masterpiece and thinks he's a legend for writing this piece of garbage which probably took as long as it did for him to take a shit on the toilet to write, the lyrics are very weak and what's also noticable in all of his songs is that they all mainly have one verse and one chorus that just repeat throughout the length of all the songs. I feel so sorry for the folks who bought the target edition thinking because there are two extra tracks that they actually thought they were getting two more pieces of good material....save your money on buying that edition infact save your money from buying any version of this album download it from youtube for free although it's a waste of time even that way you can at least say if you like a song out of the tracks on the album you at least saved money and got it all for free.....this artist doesn't even care about his fans he was instagramming live everyday when the album first came out in March and it was number one in the first two weeks once Horan heard that concert touring was cancelled for 2020
basically due to the pandemic from covid-19 he basically told all of his fans to go screw themselves and no one has seem him on instagram live since doing anything.
His current collaboration with Ashland Wilson folks I have to say I feel sorry for her as if you watch the most recent interview he did with her for the fourth of july weekend Horan admits he didn't even know her full name until that interview and he collaborated with her for eight weeks on their current single "moral of the story" how sad is that folks I think honestly he heard the name Ashe short for her full name and thought he heard ass as he thought he was gonna get a piece of it, we've all seen his dating track record he only picks upcoming new singers celebrities to work with and also date not to mention he picks girls that look similar to barbie dolls the difference being that barbie actually has boobs unlike his girls. Niall just come out of the closet already it's okay to tell the world you don't like women. All
of your music sounds like you're gargling with a dick in your mouth your songwriting is subpar at best infact you held your former band One Direction back from making a long lasting career they would still be around if it wasn't for your lame ass and singing, why do you think Simon Cowel shut your microphone off while you did live performances even he saw you couuldn't carry a tune in a bucket if you really tried
look at the two so called attempts of albums you've made they're only good as a piece of toilet paper to wipe your ass with..
Also Stop crying for your soulmate in your most recent attempt "Shine A Light" be a man get off your lazy fucking ass and find her she's not going to come to you you pathetic lazy twat, Rainbow has tried so many ways to contact you.
Heartbreak Weather gets a zero starr rating from this reviewer as there is no original sounding material on this record whatsoever it's all rip off material of other artists songs including his former band One Direction, as for the guys in One Direction at least your solo material actually will be remembered twenty years from now unlike Horan's first two albums which are not worth spending ten cents on.
If you don't like this review Niall which we all know you won't being the cry baby that you are be a man and contact me at talkinghendrix@gmail.com
and maybe i'll change this review and be a little nicer and maybe i'll give you some information about Rainbow, that's of course if you're a real man and not a little boy like Haley sings about, but again I think it's quite obvious about your preference it's not girls obviously it's okay in the current year 2020 to admit you're gay.
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